December 01, 2005
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Hey
The Girl -- when are they gonna lower our gas prices like they did
in the Pacific? We're still at $2.78, and the national average is $2.15? Yuck.
SheepDog asks where our Thomas Paines are. I agree with him that MilBlogs are handling that task quite nicely, but I'd also like to give props to Bill Whittle. His book, Silent America, is a rally cry for our time.
Tanker sent me a link: The Iraq story: how troops see it
And our friend Tim sent me words from Joe Lieberman, a sane man in a sea of crazies. Hard to believe he ran with Al Gore...
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Sarah, my shoppette just put up the new pricing and 200L of regular unleaded is now $133. That's down $30~ or so (maybe less). So keep an eye out they are supposed to have dropped it.
HH6
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I don't mean to make any deep point here, but about that Yahoo story... You've got a couple of soldiers who start giving kids candy, hoping that they are less likely to be attacked by terrorists if kids are hanging around. Is that a great plan? I don't doubt that they developed real affection for those girls, and of course when they were worried about an attack once they tried to protect them, but still, trying to use kids to shield yourself doesn't seem like the best of ideas.
Posted by: Pericles at December 01, 2005 09:37 AM (eKf5G)
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I love being called to task over gas prices
haha I came SO close to posting about this over the weekend, but decided that I didn't want to complain every SINGLE month about gas prices...
This was in Sunday's paper - I read it in amusement, after reading an article from back home, where they were complaining about the prices now being in the "high $1.90's."
We end up talking about gas prices just about every month now - and apparently, it "costs" AAFES $0.16 per gallon to pay for shipment of the fuel as well as the gas coupon program.
The letters to the editor (I'm not sure if they show up in the online version of the paper here or not?) in the Sunday papers have focused on the prices for weeks now. Apparently, there is a lot of confusion about that "average" price we're supposed to be paying - because it includes taxes. And, of course, that doesn't make much sense for the average they base our paying price on to include sales tax, which we don't pay on any of the other goods here.
Good grief. I think maybe I should have posted this weekend after all
Posted by: The Girl at December 01, 2005 11:52 AM (IQ2mP)
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So our gas prices here are $1.90 (on post) for regular unleaded and yours are STILL $2.78? Who's getting that extra $.88 (well minus the shipping fee)?? I remember the almost three years of overseas shoppette gas prices...they've gotten worse, I must say. I'll keep you posted on our "post" prices...and will pray that yours go down!!!!
Posted by: Nicole N at December 01, 2005 12:55 PM (KJBDI)
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Gas prices in New Jersey just went to $1.84.
We are enjoying this while it lasts...
Love you guys...
Posted by: Kelly's Mom at December 01, 2005 03:16 PM (f+2Ai)
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Here is the Oklahoma heartland we're at $1.91. Gas prices are one thing I don't miss about Germany. Stay strong!
Posted by: Vonn at December 01, 2005 11:15 PM (sDFje)
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That's a pretty big leap isn't it Pericles? That soldiers main motivation for being nice to kids is to draw them in as a quasi-human shield? As if it would help draw some sympathy from Zarqawi's gang! I spent a year in Iraq in a Sunni stronghold and kids swarmed us like we were rock stars. In fact we were discouraged from handing out candy or school supplies straight from Humvees because it encouraged kids to run up to us as we drove by and we didn't want them getting hurt if we were attacked. We try to minimize civillian casualties, get it? The enemy tries to maximize them.
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November 28, 2005
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The Screedblog's awesome today.
Lileks rips Vonnegut via
The Princess Bride. Priceless.
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Uh that line was NOT uttered by the giant (Fezik), it was said by the spaniard (Inigo Montoya), just one more example of why right wingers are not trusted. What a dipshit.
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November 19, 2005
QUICK LINKS
Interesting article on what happened to Iraq's WMDs:
Where the WMDs Went
And an article whose name says it all:
I took Saddam's cash, admits French envoy
UPDATE:
Read SGT Rausch's letter to Hook: Taste of Freedom
The Real Pro-War Crowd: Who They Are and What They Want (Chaos, Anarchy and Death)
And the Western media ran with a completely despicable fakery, once again: McCarthyism 101
And a good quote on a worthwhile Donald Sensing post:
I stand by every word, including what I wrote about WMDs. Why? Because itÂ’s worth remembering that the only reason we have certainty now about SaddamÂ’s WMD programs is because we invaded Iraq.
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Of course, if Tierney is right then the Bush/Rumsfeld Administration is entirely incompetent. If his drug analogy really holds up, then Bush's role in the story is that of the bumbling police chief. If the rationale for the war was to keep WMDs out of the hands of the bad guys, and now they are safe in Syria, then we utterly failed to accomplish our objective.
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November 15, 2005
TODAY'S LINKS
Some good posts on RWN:
The Bush Counter-Offensive Continues
How Many Other Mary Mapes Are Working In The Mainstream Media?
From Varifrank:
The J. Patrick Buchanan Memorial Library for Failed Prophets of Doom
(The husband remarked the other day at dinner: "What ever happened to acid rain?" Remember how that was drilled into our heads 20 years ago?)
Also, it's funny how whenever we talk about a "war for oil", someone always brings up the image of the SUV. Oil is used for other things, you know, as our commissaries are realizing. Personally, this is just fine with me; I always thought my local baggers went way overboard with the double-bagging anyway. Two boxes of cereal don't need to be double-bagged.
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Why on earth do you go to places like Right Wing News? You really should be ashamed. It is pure propaganda - as worthless as socialist workers weekly, democratic underground, and their ilk. Eew, you need to get some better taste in sources of news.
Really, RWN doesn't care about the truth, they care about firing off propaganda to support their views. What they say doesn't matter so much as the effect of supporting their side, and whether their side is right or not, they don't care. Do you really care more about your 'team' than the truth?
WRT to the Mary Mapes interview, it was very carefully taken out of the greater context, which was that the secretary who had written the originals has said that while she did not believe that the documents were originals, that there was nothing in them that was not fully in the spirit if not the words of the commander. In other words, the content was still representative of the situation.
WRT to Bush's speeh on veteran's day, when did it become appropriate for the Commander-in-Chief to go to military installation before a military crowd and denounce the opposition party? And why did he deem it appropriate to take the opportuinity to give a vets day speech that essentially ignored vets? Sometimes it's like we are in a banana republic. It is not too surprising that public approval for that shameful speech was lower than his general approval ratings.
On a separate note, the reason that acid rain is under control now is thanks to government regulations that lowered levels of sulphur dioxide emissions into the air, especially from power plants. It is still a problem, as a quick google would show, but thanks to regulation it is not as serious a problem as it would have been. In other words, by getting the message out that sulphur dioxide was creating acid rain, which was a problem, something was done, and now things are not as bad as they would have been without regulation.
Posted by: Sad at November 15, 2005 12:54 PM (ur+Lr)
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Jesus does that Mapes comment sound like "fake but accurate" or what? One last time people. TIMES NEW ROMAN!! PROPORTIONAL SPACING!!! SUPERSCRIPT!!!
You just accused the author of only listening to what she wants to hear and not getting news from an unbiased source and then had the nerve to whip out that Mapes comment. People that still defend that woman have a grip on reality that is on par with holocaust deniers and the flat earth society.
WRT to the Banana republic, Central American dictators don't give speeches denouncing the opposition party. They kill them and burn down their houses. Last time I checked, Harry Reid is fine and so is his house. The Bush is evil exaggerations are so common now that we don't get shocked or surprised by them.
You're right, Sad. Shame on the author. Shame on all of us for letting people like you get away with such irresponsible comments.
Posted by: Joe D. at November 15, 2005 02:06 PM (FmIVz)
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Joe,
Take it easy. WRT Mapes, here's the bottom line. The documents were not the only evidence in the story. The author of the originals stated that the documents' content was an accurate reflection.
So, yes, the docs were not a valid source. But the story was still valid, since witnesses corroborated the evidence presented in them.
If you think that this is akin to flat earth, well, clearly we do not have enough of a starting point to have a discussion, since it appears you are more concerned with your feelings than facts.
WRT Banana Republic comparisons, no analogy is perfect, the comparison was in these respects. Despite his own lack of history as a soldier, Bush has repeatedly strutted in a military uniform, and in that speech to denouncing his political opponents in a speech that should have honored soldiers. There, of course, are many respects in which the U.S. is not like a Banana republic, for instance, the U.S. is not in Central or South America, our primary export is not Babanas etc. This might be confusing to you, but it is the nature of analogies that when comparing two different things, that there will be likenesses and unlikenesses between the things compared. They are, after all, different. Perhaps you might want to read up on the nature of analogies, similes, metaphors, etc. so that this might be more clear to you.
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Oooh you zinged me! I'll get a grammar text book and I'll show you up on some minor league blog comment section yet!!! You just wait.
By the way, who are these alleged sources? Killian, who supposedly wrote it has been dead for years. Seriously, this debate is a year old. If there were any shred of truth in this story the premier newsman in the country wouldn't have had to resign in shame.
Or was it a plot by Les Moonves at CBS to help corporate America and Bush stay on top? Off to the Democratic underground for some ranting!! Ha! Ha!
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November 10, 2005
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Podhoretz's
Who Is Lying About Iraq? is the last nail in the coffin: Bush did not lie.
Tim sent me a
reminder of French lectures to the US.
And Lara sent me a hilarious parody:
President is sending Marines to France.
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That Podhoretz article was such an amazing act of mendacity it was actually funny. The Pollack article he cites, if read in full context actually is calling Bush a liar - hardly a reasonable source to cite to prove Bush was being honest. I think that the only thing that can be safely shown from that article it is that Podhoretz is lying about Iraq. It certainly doesn't show Bush didn't lie. The fact that he had to so carefully ignore so many facts, and then selectively quote and cite things that actually said the opposite of what he said really makes a case for there being no way to make a case that Bush didn't lie, which shows there is a high probablity Bush was deliberately lying.
Podhoretz himswelf has a very shameful history of deceptive writing, and extremist views, he is hardly one I would cite for anything other than humor. In Norman Podhoretz's world, everything is very simple. There are only two positions to take: uncritical praise of and obeisance toward the Bush administration, which places you on the side of all things good and virtuous, or you hate both the truth and America. I guess it is unsurprising that he can write so dishonestly - after all his outright lies are his way of defending Truth, Justice, and the American way.
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November 09, 2005
DANG
OK, if
this man can lose 230 lbs. to join the Army, then I have no excuse for not losing the ten pounds I want to lose. (Thanks,
Hook.)
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November 08, 2005
PARIS LINKS
Two more links about Paris:
Rioters
say "each night we make this place Baghdad"
The Association of Muslim Journalists calls for a
probe into the "violation of MuslimsÂ’ civil rights in France", if you can believe that irony.
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It's actually not ironic at all once you understand how France's economics work, and while it is not a Muslim problem alone, they are part of the largest number affected by the long time measures.
Does this excuse the rioting, no. But you're being pretty selective in your grokking.
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November 07, 2005
I LOVE JACOBY
Raven1 found a good article:
The good news from Iraq is not fit to print
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You know, I can't see it as really good news, and even if it were, there is such a huge swath of bad news in Iraq that you have to work to be willfully ignorant to imagine that things are going well.
They ratifyied a constitution that establishes Iraq as an Islamic Republic, where all laws must comply with the rule of Islam. The fact that Iran fully approves of their constituion should at least raise an eyebrow, shouldn't it? Is making Iraq a mirror of Iran the best we could do? If so, it certainly wasn't worth the American lives lost.
The Sunni politician had helped draft the new Iraqi constitution was just assassinated.
The vast majority of Sunnis opposed it, exercised their democratic right to vote as a unified voice, and were still marginalized. There was clearly a large amount of vote fraud to ensure that the constitution would pass, as the numbers didn't add up.
Talabani, the Iraqi president said "... at the end of the day my ability to confront the US military is limited and I cannot impose on them my will." Iraq is under the American military occupation, its government is helpless before American decisions about the fate of Iraq. No country is a "democracy" where a foreign military calls the shots, overruling the civilian president.
You might feel better to read a rah-rah story and pretend that things are swell, but you feel better at the expense of ignoring the truth.
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Mark Steyn. Money quote:
French cynics like the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, have spent the last two years scoffing at the Bush Doctrine: Why, everyone knows Islam and democracy are incompatible. If so, that's less a problem for Iraq or Afghanistan than for France and Belgium.
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Sarah - I found your account of living on the edge of such a neighborhood fascinating. While in Europe Patti and I went to Paris. We visited a marche' aux puce in such a neighborhood totally without warning. It was frightening to say the least.
Anyway - since I'm out of the Euro/Islam/Iraq blogging business I write just to ask you to remind us...wasn't the ENTIRE point of the Axis of Weasels that avoiding dealing with Saddam would somehow innoculate the weasels from the wrath of of the Muslims? (Oil for Food Kickbacks deliberately overlooked for the purpose of this discussion).
I'm curious to know - are the French, Belgiques, Dutch and Deutsch now shaking their heads in bewilderment or shaking their fists in outrage?
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November 06, 2005
SNIFF
Cali found a heck of an article:
Restaurant is haven for wounded war vets
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Speaking of wounded veterans, please check out Valour-IT, a program of Soldiers' Angels that provides voice-activated laptops to those whose inuries prevent them from using standard computers. Right now there is an inter-service fundraising competition among the milbloggers:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2005/11/valourit_day_2.html
Sarah, I finally unknotted that fire house of gratitude and affection without drowing anybody, LOL! And I pointed it at Valour-IT.
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Oops! Should've been "drowNing."
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November 02, 2005
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My German former co-worker used to often say how lucky we were to be living in Europe instead of the US, you know, where all the crime is. I mean, thank goodness we live in peaceful Europe, where there have been
massive riots in Paris for the past week. Good thing we're not in the Midwest anymore; boy, is it more dangerous there than in Europe! (via LGF)
I had no idea that black people had dibs on New Orleans. Apparently they all called squatters on the city before they left, like my brother used to do with his spot on the sofa when he would go to the kitchen for a drink. And now that Hispanics are moving into New Orleans to take construction jobs, Jesse Jackson is crapping his pants. A large number of black people say they have no plans to return to New Orleans, so Jesse wants to bus them back in. Sheesh. (via Hud)
And on a lighter note, read Mare's Halloween post.
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I am just watching news coverage of the riots in Paris. If this were happening in the US, the whole world would be criticizing our unfair social system, or George Bush. Can you say Schadenfreude?
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October 21, 2005
READ IT, FOR IT IS GOOD
The Killjoy Nation
And apparently my friend's husband is a blog reader too. Well, if he's reading today, Happy Birthday to you...
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October 20, 2005
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The Iraqis voted again over the weekend, and
look whose picture they took with them for strength and support. Those of us who follow news from Iraq -- and not just the garbage the AP feeds to us -- remain optimistc about Iraq's future.
Saddam Hussein went on trial yesterday. Did it even make the news? We've got hourly updates on DeLay and Rove, but apparently the Butcher of Baghdad is old news. Powerline reminds us to watch the media to see who will get "more favorable treatment in the American press, Saddam or Tom DeLay, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby?"
And out of Turkey, we get the following report (via LGF):
The survey was conducted in the conservative south-eastern city of Diyarbakir. It questioned 430 people, most of them men. When asked the appropriate punishment for a woman who has committed adultery, 37% replied she should be killed.
Twenty-five percent said that she deserved divorce, and 21% that her nose or ears should be cut off.
The survey group was small but the results are a reminder that "honour killing" - a practice where women are murdered for allegedly bringing shame on their family - still has significant support in parts of Turkey.
LGF has tracked honor killings for years. Never forget that this is what we're fighting against. Honor killing is the marriage of two of the seven signs of non-competitive states, a tradition that must be eradicated before Arab states can move forward.
And lastly, Powerline asks "Where is the outrage?" over the destruction of synagogues in Gaza. He quotes an editorial that reminds us that, unlike Peeing on the Koran-gate, this actually happened.
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September 26, 2005
HEH
The Stars and Stripes got some
good quotes from D.C. this weekend:
Jamie Santoro, a 40-year-old editor with a book company in Chicago, rode 18 hours with 40 friends to participate.
“I came because I think war is wrong in every circumstance,” she said. What about in fighting someone such as Hitler? “War is always wrong.”
Arianette Gosnell, 18, a student at Lorain County Community College in Ohio, drove out with her friends.
She was handing out flyers that read “RESIST OR DIE! NO SCHOOL ON NOV. 2!”
Asked what the group hoped to accomplish by not going to class for a day, she said, “Actually, I just got involved today, so I don’t know.”
Heh.
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Most anti-war protestors could say something about why they were at the protest. So wasn't it journalistically dishonest of S&S to find and quote one who couldn't?
Posted by: Pericles at September 26, 2005 07:20 AM (EpPuP)
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The very concept of an anti-war protest is intellectually dishonest, since almost everyone is against war except in the extreme. I know of no pro-war soldiers. The anti-warist is saying nothing is worth fighting for or that the insult was not personal enough for him to be included.
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What is dishonest about saying that one particulcar war is not worth fighting? I'm not someone who would be protesting the war NOW, because I don't think we should pull out at this point. I probably should have protested during the march up to the war, because I was (and still am) convinced this this particular war was a mistake---just as I'm convinced that other wars, including the one on Afghanistan, were the right thing to do.
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While it would take a lot of demographic work to substantiate with any data, one has to wonder if say those particluar nitwits were like black specks of sand carefully picked out of a large beach of mostly white sand to prove that the beach was really black...
Walter, I don't get your point. Where do you come up with the idea that 'almost everyone is against war except in the extreme?' What percentage is 'almost everyone? What data would ytou use to substantiate that? And why is it dishonest to march in a protest against the goverment doing something that 'amost everyone' doesn't approve of? It seems to me that if almost everyone disapproves of a government action that doesn't represent we the people, a protest is vey much in order in a democratic country.
Posted by: VOT at September 26, 2005 11:48 PM (Z1Ipc)
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I think Walter has a point...when you boil everything down, if the country could be back in a relatively peaceful state...even a Cold War would be welcome, people would generally be happier. War is indeed a very ugly thing, but there are times when it becomes necessary.
We live on this planet together with over 6 billion people. When it looks like one group or organization might be fiddling around with stuff that might kill the rest of us, I think something has to be done.
Technology and freedom of travel between countries brought us the events of 9/11/2001. Operation Enduring Freedom set out to expel Al Qaeda from their hideouts in Afghanistan and return the country back to the people. Operation Iraqi Freedom was kicked off to release Iraq from the stranglehold of a nutjob evil dictator, look for WMDs that damned near everyone said would be found, and to finally try to spark a democratic society within the Middle East. I'm sorry, sounds like there are some pretty good reasons to go to war at this point.
As to what not going to school on 2 November will prove...that people being handed an education on a silver platter will still spit on it and disrespect it by willingly not attending!
In my Draconian world...any child that missed school without a helluva a good reason would be suspended or expelled. I don't invest in failure. Anyone that would turn their nose up at education deserves to suffer the consequences of not having one.
Wow!
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
MajorDad1984
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September 25, 2005
LIBRARY
I swear I could've written
this blog entry about the library. I volunteered there as a kid and longed for the day when I had logged enough time to be able to stamp the due date cards. Mostly I just shelved the children's books, but it wasn't a bad gig for a ten year old. And I have asked my husband about the library vs. Napster thing too.
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My daughter visits the school library every Monday and comes home with a new book. Last week she said, "Mom, what's this pocket in the back for?"
I used to love putting the cards back in the pockets and helping file the new cards as they came in.
I never did get to wield the stamper though.
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September 23, 2005
OUTRAGE
You're not alone, Charles. I too am outraged.
Hamas To Convert Synagogue to Weapons Museum
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That is really vile, the Palestinians who could some up with that are seriously demented. A synagogue is not longer considered a holy place once the Torah has been removed, but all the same, they clearly were trying for a symbolic act of sheer hate, and that is despicable.
Do not click this link at work. Do not click this link if you have a weak stomach.
Here's another seriously disgusting and outrageous site. It's a site with a collection of photos soldiers have taken of Iraqis they have killed, often with their heads blown off. The most disgusting part is the comments and attitudes there, things like a man lying in a pool of blood and guts has the soldier comment, "What every Iraqi should look like," or images of soldiers smiling and giving the thumbs up while standing over the body of a charred dead child.
Certainly the many idiots who are posting those photos do not represent the mainstream of soldiers, but they do represent some of them, and they are a serious disgrace to their uniforms and to our country.
Some of the pundits on the right keep saying that the war in Iraq is about fighting terror, and that being against the war is supporting terrorism. Those on the left keep saying that the war is creating more terrorist recruitment, and is counterproductive to the war on terror. I have to say that these idiots have done more to help the cause of terrorists than anything anyone on the left has ever done. Between this and Abu Ghraib, where the Administration is arguing that relasing more photos of the torture there would inflame the Muslim world and drive untold numbers to join al-Qaeda, it's pretty clear that our presence Iraq is helping the terrorist cause far more than it is hurting.
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September 20, 2005
GASP
Hey, Deskmerc -- did you see this? Did your heart skip a beat like mine did?
Are we really going
back to the moon?
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I can't even pretend to not be excited about that. They're even talking about six months in lunar orbit. SIX MONTHS!
"I call this Earth orbit rendevous."
Von Braun was a smart guy after all, huh?
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As much as I loved the space program as a kid...and standing out in my yard on clear nights when I lived on the Space Coast watching launches in the early 90s...I have some sense of wonder if this is the right time to spend the kind of money we're talking about spending to make this so.
Maybe this is the fiscal conservative in me that says that we've got quite a bit on our plates here on Earth to be too concerned about gallavanting into space to visit a place we've been before. I understand that the intent is to establish a permanent base on the moon as a jump off point for places deeper in the solar system, but for crying out loud, we've got a war raging on this planet (against radical Islam), another war on poverty in this country (which we'd win if we just get people to act responsibly) and the challenge of turning back our clock to a time where our country was fiscally responsible enough not to spend more than it took in.
Yes, a return to space is an exciting idea...but is it time to put it into action at this point?
See you on the high ground!
MajorDad1984
P.S. For my critics, this should be proof enough that I'm man enough to think for myself. Do I love G.W. Bush being our president? Absolutely! Do I see him starting to do things that I vehemently disagree with? Absolutely. That's what makes this country great...well, just one of them actually.
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